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Chapter 7 | Using FileMaker Pro Advanced 129
To distribute a new or updated auxiliary file:
1. In FileMaker Pro Advanced, create the new auxiliary file or open the original auxiliary file
(before it was bound), and make changes as required.
2. If necessary, create an Import script so users can import their existing data into the new file.
For more information about importing data into upgraded runtime solutions, see Help.
3. Use the Developer Utilities to rebind all the files in the runtime solution and include the new or
updated auxiliary file.
Use the same binding key that you used for the primary file.
4. Send your users a copy of the new or updated auxiliary file along with instructions to place it in
the runtime solution folder, replacing the old file if appropriate.
As long as the binding key has not changed, you don’t need to redistribute the runtime
application or other solution files.
Kiosk mode
Kiosk mode is a way of displaying your solution or runtime solution on a full screen, without any
toolbars or menus. As the name suggests, Kiosk mode can be used to present your solution to
users as an information kiosk. You can design your solution to run through a touch screen.
When you create a solution to run in Kiosk mode, you need to provide navigation for your solution
and the ability for users to quit your solution.
Custom functions
Use the Custom Functions feature to create functions that can be reused anywhere in a file and
copied or imported to other FileMaker
Pro files. Once formulas are written for the function, they
don’t have to be rewritten to be applied to other fields or used in other scripts.
You can maintain and edit custom functions and the formulas they contain in one central location.
Any change made to the custom function will be copied to all instances where that custom function
has been used.